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December 9, 2025
Growth & Jobs | JBDC targets 500 businesses in digital transformation push
THE JAMAICA Business Development Corporation (JBDC) has set its sights on digitally transforming at least one internal business process for 500 Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) under…
December 9, 2025
Seanteès miraculous encounter at Coronation Market
AT JUST 26, Seanteé Hunt McFarlane felt weighed down by life. Stress eating, lacking motivation, and barely able to get out of bed, she found herself distant from herself and overwhelmed by the…
December 9, 2025
Dwight Fletcher | The Peter Pattern of self-forgiveness – Part 2
IF YOU’VE been following along with this series, then you know we’re discussing the concept of forgiving ourselves. Sometimes, we beat up on ourselves for our mistakes, embarrassments and sin, even…
December 9, 2025
Immigration Corner | Sponsoring a child discovered abroad
Dear Miss Powell, My husband and I came to Canada six years ago as a couple. We recently visited Jamaica, and I was introduced to a six-year-old girl whose mother claimed my husband was the father. At…
December 9, 2025
by Kimone Francis
Businesswoman ‘frustrated, angry’ over JPS approach to report of electricity theft
A businesswoman is crying foul after the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) disconnected electricity to her Molynes Road, St Andrew business place for three weeks, causing her to lose thousands of…
December 9, 2025
by Christopher Thomas
NO SPACE FOR MORE INTERNS
WESTERN BUREAU: Following recent complaints from several China-trained doctors that their internship applications in Jamaica were reportedly rejected one month after their expected response deadline,…
December 9, 2025
by Gregory Bryce
10-MEDAL HAUL
For the fourth World Championships staging in a row, Jamaica has earned a double-digit medal haul as they closed out nine days of competition at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships with 10 medals;…
December 9, 2025
by Christopher Thomas
Police supt tells parents: Don’t leave children’s upbringing to schools alone
WESTERN BUREAU: SUPERINTENDENT OF Police Mercedes Currie, the acting commanding officer for the St James Police Division, is urging parents to take their role as disciplinarians seriously and not…
December 9, 2025
by Samuel Cornell
Brooke Nickel and Sean Docking
A booming longevity industry wants to sell us ‘immortality’
If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren’t just making tech products, they’ve set their sights on immortality. Social media is flooded with influencers…